Chapter XLV. to authorize the Purchase of a Site for a public Building at Cincinnati, Ohio
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CHAP. XLV.— An Act to authorize the Purchase of a Site for a public Building at Cincinnati, Ohio.March 12, 1872. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That[Amended. See ch. 415. *Post,* p. 353.]Site to be purchased in Cincinnati, Ohio, for the erection of a building for the courts and offices of the United States.No money to be expended until, &c. the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to purchase a central and suitable site in the city of Cincinnati, Ohio, for the erection of a building for the accommodation of the United States courts, Custom-house, United States depository, post-office, internal revenue and pension offices, at a cost not exceeding three hundred thousand dollars: *Provided,* That no money which may hereafter be appropriated for this purpose shall be used or expended in the purchase of said site until a valid title thereto shall be vested in the United States, and until the State of Oltio shall cede its jurisdiction over the same, and shall duly release and relinquish to the United States the right to tax or in any way assess said site and the property of the United States that may be thereon during the time that the United States shall he or remain the owner thereof.
Approved, March 12, 1872.